Red Hat LINUX ES 2.1 Installation Manual page 16

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1.5.1.1. What a Server Installation Will Do
A Server installation, with automatic partitioning, will create the following partitions:
Note
The partitions represented below were created on a system with 9 GB of hard drive space and 512
MB of RAM. Depending on the amount of hard drive space and memory you have available, these
values may differ slightly.
A 47 MB partition (mounted as
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A partition of at least 4877 MB (mounted as
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The size of the swap partition is determined by the amount of RAM in your system and the amount
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of space available on your hard drive. If you have 128 MB of RAM, then the swap partition created
can be 128 MB – 256 MB (twice your RAM), depending on how much disk space is available.
For this example, a 1020 MB swap partition (mounted as
A 2738 MB ext partition.
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A partition of at least 2094 MB (mounted as
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A 384 MB partition (mounted as
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A 259 MB partition (mounted as
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This partitioning scheme offers a reasonably flexible filesystem configuration for most server tasks.
1.5.2. Custom Installations
The Custom installation allows you the most flexibility during your installation. During a Custom
installation, you have complete control over the packages that will be installed on your system.
The recommended disk space requirements for a Custom installation are as follows:
Note
The minimum recommended disk space requirements as listed below, are just minimum recommen-
dations for the installation itself. You should adjust these disk space requirements as appropriate for
your specific computing needs (such as disk space for personal files, additional applications you may
install at a later time, and so on).
Custom (minimum, without Server packages): 350 MB
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Custom (minimum, with Server packages): 500 MB
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Custom (default): 1 GB
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Custom (choosing everything): 3.2 GB
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) in which the Linux kernel and related files are kept.
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Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started
swap ) is created.
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